There's a moment. A moment in the movie theater when the lights go off, the curtain rises, and the sloped aisle lights up like an airport runway, and you wonder: Will I be the same person I am now when I leave? Whatever unveils itself across a screen twenty feet tall isn't meant to stay up there. It sprouts in the dark; cultivated in open minds, softened by sadness. Whatever you need, you find it on the silver screen. Tiny pieces of the world you hate, change inside a theater. And that reality is unalterable.
Which makes me sad, ya know?
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Life on Mars (Take Away the Saints Anthology)
Mystery / ThrillerBased on the song "Life on Mars" by David Bowie... Someone is killing girls in the little town of Nowhere, South Dakota and they all look like Fiona Mars. Fiona has a secret she can't quite remember. A secret her father, the Sheriff, is trying hard...